Thailand’s initial strong economic growth after the 2008 global financial crisis, and its subsequent plateauing as a middle-income tier economy, is well-documented, and a rich body of previous analyses...
Thailand’s initial strong economic growth after the 2008 global financial crisis, and its subsequent plateauing as a middle-income tier economy, is well-documented, and a rich body of previous analyses...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...
SME’s form a dominant share of the private sector in developing countries, and account for more than 50 percent of jobs in their respective economies. Besides their positive employment effects, the growth...
The most dominant effect of SME financing on poverty reduction is through financial deepening and development of the financial sector. This has an indirect pro poor effect which helps alleviate SMEs’ financing...
Evidence from literature suggests that investment climate matters for the poor. The relationship between investment climate (IC) reforms and poverty reduction can be understood in two ways. First, the...
Building financial infrastructure (FI) by way of credit reporting and secured transactions in the financial sector has a significant indirect impact on poverty through financial deepening and economic...
This review, based on secondary review of program and project evaluation, case studies and findings from the IFC Jobs Study, highlights that value chain initiatives in general and training programs for...
Agriculture is a sector dominated by the poorer segments of population, especially in lower income and largely rural economies. Hence, improving productivity in the sector directly impacts the poor and...
This note summarizes a larger literature review that looked at empirical evidence and literature regarding the direct and indirect relationship between infrastructure investment and poverty. The findings...
Investments in tourism have the potential to impact poverty both directly and indirectly. The literature review suggests that the direct ways in which tourism impacts the poor is through the significant...
The literature review provides evidence for the significance of the manufacturing sector as an engine of growth, employment creation and poverty reduction. The manufacturing sector impacts poverty directly...
Indirect job creation among International Finance Corporation (IFC) clients study includes: strategic importance and objective, methodology, key findings, case details, and lessons learnt and applications...
IFC granted a loan to partly finance Orissa Cement Limited (OCL), an Indian cement manufacturer, to expand its capacity and set up a Greenfield plant. This created about 300 direct jobs and 7,200 indirect...
Since fiscal year 2008 International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made two investments totaling 21 million dollars in the program for rural advancement nationally (PRAN), a leading agro processing firm...
Cement is a key sector for the Global Manufacturing and Services Department (GMS), accounting for about 18 percent of the department's commitment volume. Development results for this sector have been consistently...